On August 13, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $100 million in competitive grant funding through its Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) program. The funding is a part of the White House’s Housing Supply Action Plan, which aims to build more homes and lower both buying and renting costs for families while building climate resilient communities. Communities nationwide can apply for PRO Housing funding to remove barriers to local housing...| National Association of Counties
NACo strengthens America’s counties, serving nearly 40,000 county elected officials and 3.6 million county employees.| National Association of Counties
Across the nation, communities are suffering from rampant opioid misuse and overdose rates, and the 420 counties in the Appalachian region of the eastern U.S. have been disproportionately impacted by this epidemic of addiction. At the turn of the millennium, the opioid overdose death rate for Appalachian counties was roughly equal to that of the rest of the country. By 2017, however, the death rate for opioid overdoses in Appalachian counties was 72 percent higher than that of non-Appalachian...| National Association of Counties